Tommy James tells jokes for a living. He also rescued a dog once. Oh, and he may someday write that script he’s been talking about. Don’t mock him for the music he has in his iPod.
Influences
Alcohol
Tommy James's Interests
General
Does complaining count?
Music
Before we get this started, if you're gonna put songs up on Limewire or Kazaa or whereve, could you please get the artist and song title correct? Is that too much to ask? If it is, let me know and I'll back off, but damn you'd think some of you are braindead. For example, The Verve sang "Bittersweet Symphony", OK? Not Verve Pipe. They sang "The Freshman." Get it straight.
With that off my chest, one of my guilty pleasures in life are 80's hair bands - Especially Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Poison, Guns and Roses, Def Lepard, and Van Hagar (Yeah, I said it I liked them with Hagar)
Afterwards, dug the Seattle sound especially Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Temple of the Dog, Smashing Pumpkins, & Days of the New. And while I liked Nirvana, I never LOVED them like so much of the rest of the world. Then again I admitted I liked Van Hagar, so what the hell do I know?
Also a fan of Audioslave, Springsteen, U2, OLD pre-Disney Elton John, the Stones, Incubus, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Run DMC, old LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Tribe called Quest, Snoop, the Killers, Green Day and Garbage among others. (And yes, there's a few others that I choose not to list so that you won't mock me. . . Because I know how you operate and I'll have none of it!)
BTW, could someone please explain this whole Cold Play phenomenon? I don't get it. It's not a deal-breaker per se, but I just don't get it.
And finally the greatest one hit wonder in the world is "Brandy" by Looking Glass. Though I kinda also dug Deadeye Dick's "New Age Girl" (Mary Moe)
Movies
Favorite Comedy Movies:
Arthur, Airplane, Caddy Shack, Seems Like Old Times, The Big Lewbowski, Midnight Run, What About Bob, Office Space, Kingpin, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, Vacation, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Something About Mary, Ground Hog Day, Animal House, Bad News Bears (the original), Fletch, Clerks, Naked Gun, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ruthless People, Meatballs, the first 2/3 of Old School, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, The Producers, Lost in America, Silver Streak, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Revenge of the Nerds, Porky's, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Quick Change, Anchorman, Pootie Tang, Napolean Dynamite, Super Troopers, This is Spinal Tap, Slapshot, 40 Year Old Virgin
Other Movies:
Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Angel Heart, Basic Instinct, Silence of the Lambs, Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver, Serpico, Carlito's Way, Being John Malkovich, The Godfather 1&2, Terminator 1&2, Rocky 1&2, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Manchurian Candidate, Seven, Braveheart, Full Metal Jacket, platoon, Born on the 4th of July, Apocalypse Now, Heat, A Bronx Tale, Fight Club, True Romance, Wizard of Oz, Shawshank Redemption, LA Confidential, Memento, Mystic River, Leaving Las Vegas, Chinatown, Almost Famous, King of Comedy, The Insider, Officer and a Gentleman, Saturday Night Fever, A Few Good Men, Color of Money, The Champ, Awakenings, Mask
Television
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, The Sopranos, The Daily Show, Reno 911, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, South Park, Futurama, Family Guy, SNL, Law & Order SVU, Tonight Show, Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan, Late Late Show, Premium Blend, Comedy Central Presents.
Older stuff in syndication: Seinfeld, That 70's Show, Grounded for Life, Taxi, The Jeffersons, What's Happening, Good Times, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, All in the Family, Married with Children, Dream On, It's The Garry Shandling Show, Brady Bunch.
And without TiVo this list wouldn't be possible.
Books
Usually buy 'em, often read them, rarely finish them.
Tulane University Of Louisiana
New Orleans,Louisiana
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: MBA with concentration in Marketing
About me: I'm preapproved for credit cards on a daily basis. I enjoy buying things that are mispriced - even if I don't need what I'm purchasing. I have never seen a James Bond movie, but not because I don't want to - only because I enjoy watching people flip out when I tell them I've never seen one. I haven't updated my personal website in more than 2 years. No one has ever beaten me at Brady Bunch trivia- EVER. I once stole an entire ball crawl from an amusement park (long story) and filled my hotel room with the balls. At one time, I sold phones over the phone. I'm afraid of fish.
I bet you'll wanna know a little more about me. Am I right or am I right?
Fact is, I enjoy: fishing for compliments, proving people wrong, using profanity, convincing others that employees at Trader Joe's are a little "too" nice, second guessing myself, changing the channel, sucking up to more important people than myself, secretly despising those same important people, perpetuating stereotypes, New York City, cajoling my parents, placating my wife, getting in over my head, rooting for the Syracuse Orange(men), making people slightly uncomfortable, and tumbling into obscurity.
In addition, I also have fun: complaining about things that Don't affect me, worrying about things that Won't affect me, rooting for the NY Jets, using TiVo, watching stand up comedy (no props or guitars, except Henry Phillips), performing stand up comedy, talking about that screenplay I'm gonna write, mocking stupid people, patronizing people who hate Starbucks, killing insects with bug spray but not shoes, finding flaws in things, namecalling, rooting for the NY Yankees, complaining about my weight, visiting New Orleans, asking people for gum, and hanging around the Hollywood Improv on Thursday nights.
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A spec commercial I was just in:
Who I'd like to meet:
I suppose I should say I'd like to meet someone profound like Jesus. But then I'd be afraid he'd ask me why I haven't been around in a while. Then I'd have to lie and say something like, "I've just been busy." And he'd know all along that I was lying, which would make both of us uncomfortable and I just don't want that, OK? Maybe you're into the whole head games thing, but that's not how I roll. And from what I hear, Jesus hates head games too.
Or maybe you'd think I might wanna meet a celebrity. You couldn't be more off. Let's get something straight, I'm no "star-fucker." Plus once you've hung out with HBO sitcom star and comedian Louis CK, there's really no other celebrity you need to meet.
Actually, I'd like to meet the person who invented "red-light cameras" and kick 'em in the groin.
Also, I'd really like to meet the CEO of Trader Joe's so I can ask him how they've brainwashed the entire staff into being polite & friendly to the point where it creeps me out.
I've ordered a swarm of killer bees to be dropped off at your front door just before the start of the SB next Sunday. They will sting you to oblivion so you wont even have to watch the Pats maul the Giants. You'll be too busy applying salve on your eye sockets. Cheers, Rick T. Brady
Cheers bud for the add. Life is better with you as a friend. No need to worry. It will all mend. Oi, oi, oi, this is turning into one of those Newman songs. Ah! good hearing from you. You're a decent skin. See you in the lines of sonnex out there someday. May the health of the salmon be with you always. Slan, Mel.
